Rotationplasty: Doctors managed to save my foot by sewing it on backwards trends now
A man who was diagnosed with bone cancer after a fall has had his leg amputated and his foot sewed on backwards.
In 2015 Ibrahim Abdulrauf, then 14, took a minor tumble while playing football. The next day he woke up in pain and was unable to walk.
After a trip to A&E at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham, West Midlands, he was diagnosed with a bone infection.
Ibrahim spent the next six weeks in hospital and was prescribed antibiotics.
After being discharged, the pain continued and he was sent to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham where he was eventually diagnosed with bone cancer.
Ibrahim Abdulrauf (pictured, now 22) was diagnosed with bone cancer at 14. Doctors amputated part of his leg and then sewed on his foot backwards
Rotationplasty is a procedure in which the middle part of the leg is removed and the foot and ankle are sewn on backwards
He went on to have chemotherapy for six months before doctors advised him to get a Rotationplasty, a rare operation in which the middle part of the leg is removed and the bottom is sewn on backwards.
These procedures are used because the patient retains the use of their foot, which helps them walk in their prosthesis.
The foot being backwards allows the patient to use their ankle joint to move their leg in the same way as non-amputees would
